Speaker Profiles

Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Henry Louis Gates Jr.

director, Du Bois Institute, Harvard
http://dubois.fas.harvard.edu/henry-louis-gates
Henry Louis Gates Jr., is the Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and the Director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University.  [more]
Henry Louis Gates and Ilan Stavans: Culture Wars and the Canon
Henry Louis Gates and Ilan Stavans: Culture Wars and the Canon
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
December 16, 2010
01:06:00
Two leading cultural thinkers, Ilan Stavans and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., discuss Latino and African American relationships in the U.S.
Edwidge Danticat: The Immigrant Artist at Work
Edwidge Danticat: The Immigrant Artist at Work
Edwidge Danticat
November 17, 2010
00:53:46
Award-winning Haitian-American author Edwidge Danticat discusses her reflection on art and exile, Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work. Danticat is introduced by Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Kwame Anthony Appiah: How Moral Revolutions Happen
Kwame Anthony Appiah: How Moral Revolutions Happen
Kwame Anthony Appiah
November 4, 2010
00:52:29
Philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah discusses honor and its place in social and political movements throughout modern history through his new book is The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: Colored People
Henry Louis Gates Jr.
November 12, 2009
01:21:42
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American research and the Alphonse Fletcher, Jr. University Professor at Harvard University, discusses his memoir Colored People. This lecture is co-presented by Cambridge READS.
Looking for Lincoln: In His Time and Ours
Adam Gopnik
February 9, 2009
01:58:22
A panel moderated by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Harvard University Professor and Director of the W.E.B.
Visions of Race in America in the Films of Ken Burns
Ken Burns
October 29, 2008
01:29:36
This discussion explores the themes of race and citizenship in the films of Ken Burns, as viewed through the eyes of the panelists. The program features clips from several of Burns' films, followed by a panel discussion, which includes a question and answer period with the audience.
Image of Tradition and the Black Atlantic: Critical Theory in the African Diaspora
Author: Henry Louis Jr. Gates
Publisher: Basic Civitas Books (2010)
Binding: Hardcover, 224 pages
Image of Faces of America
Manufacturer: NYU Press
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Image of In Search of Our Roots: How 19 Extraordinary African Americans Reclaimed Their Past
Author: Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Publisher: Crown (2009)
Binding: Hardcover, 448 pages
Image of Colored People: A Memoir
Author: Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Publisher: Vintage (1995)
Binding: Paperback, 240 pages
Image of The Norton Anthology of African American Literature
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Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company (2003)
Binding: Paperback, 2832 pages
Image of The Trials of Phillis Wheatley: America's First Black Poet and Encounters with the Founding Fathers
Author: Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Publisher: Basic Civitas Books (2003)
Binding: Hardcover, 192 pages
Image of Loose Canons: Notes on the Culture Wars
Author: Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (1993)
Binding: Paperback, 199 pages
Image of Lincoln on Race and Slavery
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Publisher: Princeton University Press (2009)
Binding: Hardcover, 396 pages
Image of Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Black Man
Author: Henry Louis Gates Jr
Publisher: Vintage (1998)
Binding: Paperback, 256 pages
Image of The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism
Author: Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (1989)
Binding: Paperback, 320 pages
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